F-35Bs take part in Exercise Dawn Blitz

F-35B aircraft were aboard the USS Essex during Exercise Dawn Blitz where they supported an amphibious assault.

Dawn Blitz is a scenario-driven amphibious exercise conducted between the US Expeditionary Strike Group 3 and 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade, testing their ability to conduct amphibious operations in response to global crises and to project power ashore as part of a US Navy-Marine Corps team.

“Dawn Blitz 2017 is an excellent opportunity to operationalize concepts the Navy and Marine Corps services have been discussing for some time,” said Cmdr. Matthew Hoekstra, director of maritime operations for ESG-3 and lead exercise planner for Dawn Blitz.

It’s also not right to say screw it let the Americans pay for our national defense, its getting to the point where the Americans will genuinely consider pulling every boot out of Europe and leave them to it.

Without a Nuclear deterrent and the US do you think the EU would last more than a week in an actual military conflict? The UK and France ran out of bombs after a two week campaign in Libya.

Just as was planned before the Falklands war & contributed to encouraging the Argentines to invade. No other nation has plans to throw away such a capability. Why do our successive governments seem bent on rendering us indefensible?

Because they have to pay for an ever expanding health and social programme that benefits Group A but which is in large part funded by a much, much smaller Group C. Note Group B is much larger than Group C but smaller than Group A – it too contributes to Group A’s maintenance but the net contribution is not nearly so significant as Group C’s. Group C is persuaded to continue supporting Group A as the price for doing business in the UK and for access to London but Group C is not committed to the UK and is particularly mobile. If Group C got up and left or people from Group B were squeezed in to Group A by taxation the whole balancing act would come tumbling down. All governments need to maintain this status quo because the people are too febrile to fix the situation themselves and the political fall out upsetting this balance would be catastrophic.

Our government is hostage to a socio-political blackmail foisted on the nation by progressive politicians. This means our MPs and the government have next to no space to manoeuvre. Meanwhile the same progressive MPs are continuously agitating for policies that increase liberty at the expense of harmony and order and for increases in the scope of the state. In short they are trying to shift more people from Group B in to Group A. It is economic suicide but they don’t care because it suits their agenda of equality – not merely equality of opportunity but also outcome. It is a race to the bottom along a road of unrealisable promises. UK PLC is stuffed.